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![Julia Ioffe Instagram - Emilia Isaakovna Bruk, 8.14.1934 - 12.19.2020. This weekend, my grandmother Emma died of #COVID19. She survived so much—a world war and the Holocaust, both of which took so many of her family members; Stalin and the Doctor's Plot, which nearly derailed her medical career; the Soviet Union itself, as well as her parents and brother, whom she idolized till the end of her days, scores of friends, and two husbands, both of whom she loved to distraction. But this doesn't begin to capture the irrepressible Emma Bruk. In the censorship and totalitarian control of the Soviet Union, she lived with an inner freedom that is nothing short of remarkable. It went beyond reading and passing around samizdat and helping dissidents and manning the barricades when the tanks rolled into Moscow in August 1991, though she did all that, too. It was about living on her own terms, about not letting anything diminish the purity of her ideals and hopes for a country she loved and refused to give up on, even when her only daughter took her only two grandchildren to another country, far beyond the Iron Curtain. She found her freedom in the people she surrounded herself with, many of whom were her former patients, people who remained her close friends long after she finished treating their hearts. She found it in the vast beauty of the mountains, which she climbed with friends, in the songs of the great bards she sang around campfires in that same beautiful voice I heard over my bed in the dark as a child. She found it in her work as a doctor, both at the Botkin Hospital and Moscow Art Theater, until she finally, reluctantly retired at 77. (She took great pride in the fact that her desk at the latter was next door to the old office of Mikhail Bulgakov, a writer, dramaturg, and fellow physician.) She lived independently till the end, despite her failing heart and the brain tumor that was growing unbeknownst to her. She followed the news and went to protests—her heart, she always said, hurt for Russia. She went to the theater, concerts, and exhibits; she traveled and saw her many friends and never diminishing number of informal patients. [continued in comments]](https://www.gethucinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Julia-Ioffe-15-U6absA7388-300x300.jpg)
![Julia Ioffe Instagram - Emilia Isaakovna Bruk, 8.14.1934 - 12.19.2020. This weekend, my grandmother Emma died of #COVID19. She survived so much—a world war and the Holocaust, both of which took so many of her family members; Stalin and the Doctor's Plot, which nearly derailed her medical career; the Soviet Union itself, as well as her parents and brother, whom she idolized till the end of her days, scores of friends, and two husbands, both of whom she loved to distraction. But this doesn't begin to capture the irrepressible Emma Bruk. In the censorship and totalitarian control of the Soviet Union, she lived with an inner freedom that is nothing short of remarkable. It went beyond reading and passing around samizdat and helping dissidents and manning the barricades when the tanks rolled into Moscow in August 1991, though she did all that, too. It was about living on her own terms, about not letting anything diminish the purity of her ideals and hopes for a country she loved and refused to give up on, even when her only daughter took her only two grandchildren to another country, far beyond the Iron Curtain. She found her freedom in the people she surrounded herself with, many of whom were her former patients, people who remained her close friends long after she finished treating their hearts. She found it in the vast beauty of the mountains, which she climbed with friends, in the songs of the great bards she sang around campfires in that same beautiful voice I heard over my bed in the dark as a child. She found it in her work as a doctor, both at the Botkin Hospital and Moscow Art Theater, until she finally, reluctantly retired at 77. (She took great pride in the fact that her desk at the latter was next door to the old office of Mikhail Bulgakov, a writer, dramaturg, and fellow physician.) She lived independently till the end, despite her failing heart and the brain tumor that was growing unbeknownst to her. She followed the news and went to protests—her heart, she always said, hurt for Russia. She went to the theater, concerts, and exhibits; she traveled and saw her many friends and never diminishing number of informal patients. [continued in comments]](https://www.gethucinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Julia-Ioffe-16-QSR7hC9359-300x300.jpg)
![Julia Ioffe Instagram - Emilia Isaakovna Bruk, 8.14.1934 - 12.19.2020. This weekend, my grandmother Emma died of #COVID19. She survived so much—a world war and the Holocaust, both of which took so many of her family members; Stalin and the Doctor's Plot, which nearly derailed her medical career; the Soviet Union itself, as well as her parents and brother, whom she idolized till the end of her days, scores of friends, and two husbands, both of whom she loved to distraction. But this doesn't begin to capture the irrepressible Emma Bruk. In the censorship and totalitarian control of the Soviet Union, she lived with an inner freedom that is nothing short of remarkable. It went beyond reading and passing around samizdat and helping dissidents and manning the barricades when the tanks rolled into Moscow in August 1991, though she did all that, too. It was about living on her own terms, about not letting anything diminish the purity of her ideals and hopes for a country she loved and refused to give up on, even when her only daughter took her only two grandchildren to another country, far beyond the Iron Curtain. She found her freedom in the people she surrounded herself with, many of whom were her former patients, people who remained her close friends long after she finished treating their hearts. She found it in the vast beauty of the mountains, which she climbed with friends, in the songs of the great bards she sang around campfires in that same beautiful voice I heard over my bed in the dark as a child. She found it in her work as a doctor, both at the Botkin Hospital and Moscow Art Theater, until she finally, reluctantly retired at 77. (She took great pride in the fact that her desk at the latter was next door to the old office of Mikhail Bulgakov, a writer, dramaturg, and fellow physician.) She lived independently till the end, despite her failing heart and the brain tumor that was growing unbeknownst to her. She followed the news and went to protests—her heart, she always said, hurt for Russia. She went to the theater, concerts, and exhibits; she traveled and saw her many friends and never diminishing number of informal patients. [continued in comments]](https://www.gethucinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Julia-Ioffe-17-vXBEMT9345-300x300.jpg)
![Julia Ioffe Instagram - Emilia Isaakovna Bruk, 8.14.1934 - 12.19.2020. This weekend, my grandmother Emma died of #COVID19. She survived so much—a world war and the Holocaust, both of which took so many of her family members; Stalin and the Doctor's Plot, which nearly derailed her medical career; the Soviet Union itself, as well as her parents and brother, whom she idolized till the end of her days, scores of friends, and two husbands, both of whom she loved to distraction. But this doesn't begin to capture the irrepressible Emma Bruk. In the censorship and totalitarian control of the Soviet Union, she lived with an inner freedom that is nothing short of remarkable. It went beyond reading and passing around samizdat and helping dissidents and manning the barricades when the tanks rolled into Moscow in August 1991, though she did all that, too. It was about living on her own terms, about not letting anything diminish the purity of her ideals and hopes for a country she loved and refused to give up on, even when her only daughter took her only two grandchildren to another country, far beyond the Iron Curtain. She found her freedom in the people she surrounded herself with, many of whom were her former patients, people who remained her close friends long after she finished treating their hearts. She found it in the vast beauty of the mountains, which she climbed with friends, in the songs of the great bards she sang around campfires in that same beautiful voice I heard over my bed in the dark as a child. She found it in her work as a doctor, both at the Botkin Hospital and Moscow Art Theater, until she finally, reluctantly retired at 77. (She took great pride in the fact that her desk at the latter was next door to the old office of Mikhail Bulgakov, a writer, dramaturg, and fellow physician.) She lived independently till the end, despite her failing heart and the brain tumor that was growing unbeknownst to her. She followed the news and went to protests—her heart, she always said, hurt for Russia. She went to the theater, concerts, and exhibits; she traveled and saw her many friends and never diminishing number of informal patients. [continued in comments]](https://www.gethucinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Julia-Ioffe-18-9Qgr7i7302-300x300.jpg)
![Julia Ioffe Instagram - Emilia Isaakovna Bruk, 8.14.1934 - 12.19.2020. This weekend, my grandmother Emma died of #COVID19. She survived so much—a world war and the Holocaust, both of which took so many of her family members; Stalin and the Doctor's Plot, which nearly derailed her medical career; the Soviet Union itself, as well as her parents and brother, whom she idolized till the end of her days, scores of friends, and two husbands, both of whom she loved to distraction. But this doesn't begin to capture the irrepressible Emma Bruk. In the censorship and totalitarian control of the Soviet Union, she lived with an inner freedom that is nothing short of remarkable. It went beyond reading and passing around samizdat and helping dissidents and manning the barricades when the tanks rolled into Moscow in August 1991, though she did all that, too. It was about living on her own terms, about not letting anything diminish the purity of her ideals and hopes for a country she loved and refused to give up on, even when her only daughter took her only two grandchildren to another country, far beyond the Iron Curtain. She found her freedom in the people she surrounded herself with, many of whom were her former patients, people who remained her close friends long after she finished treating their hearts. She found it in the vast beauty of the mountains, which she climbed with friends, in the songs of the great bards she sang around campfires in that same beautiful voice I heard over my bed in the dark as a child. She found it in her work as a doctor, both at the Botkin Hospital and Moscow Art Theater, until she finally, reluctantly retired at 77. (She took great pride in the fact that her desk at the latter was next door to the old office of Mikhail Bulgakov, a writer, dramaturg, and fellow physician.) She lived independently till the end, despite her failing heart and the brain tumor that was growing unbeknownst to her. She followed the news and went to protests—her heart, she always said, hurt for Russia. She went to the theater, concerts, and exhibits; she traveled and saw her many friends and never diminishing number of informal patients. [continued in comments]](https://www.gethucinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Julia-Ioffe-19-F0fSPE6451-300x300.jpg)
![Julia Ioffe Instagram - Emilia Isaakovna Bruk, 8.14.1934 - 12.19.2020. This weekend, my grandmother Emma died of #COVID19. She survived so much—a world war and the Holocaust, both of which took so many of her family members; Stalin and the Doctor's Plot, which nearly derailed her medical career; the Soviet Union itself, as well as her parents and brother, whom she idolized till the end of her days, scores of friends, and two husbands, both of whom she loved to distraction. But this doesn't begin to capture the irrepressible Emma Bruk. In the censorship and totalitarian control of the Soviet Union, she lived with an inner freedom that is nothing short of remarkable. It went beyond reading and passing around samizdat and helping dissidents and manning the barricades when the tanks rolled into Moscow in August 1991, though she did all that, too. It was about living on her own terms, about not letting anything diminish the purity of her ideals and hopes for a country she loved and refused to give up on, even when her only daughter took her only two grandchildren to another country, far beyond the Iron Curtain. She found her freedom in the people she surrounded herself with, many of whom were her former patients, people who remained her close friends long after she finished treating their hearts. She found it in the vast beauty of the mountains, which she climbed with friends, in the songs of the great bards she sang around campfires in that same beautiful voice I heard over my bed in the dark as a child. She found it in her work as a doctor, both at the Botkin Hospital and Moscow Art Theater, until she finally, reluctantly retired at 77. (She took great pride in the fact that her desk at the latter was next door to the old office of Mikhail Bulgakov, a writer, dramaturg, and fellow physician.) She lived independently till the end, despite her failing heart and the brain tumor that was growing unbeknownst to her. She followed the news and went to protests—her heart, she always said, hurt for Russia. She went to the theater, concerts, and exhibits; she traveled and saw her many friends and never diminishing number of informal patients. [continued in comments]](https://www.gethucinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Julia-Ioffe-20-upjlaG7235-300x300.jpg)
![Julia Ioffe Instagram - “Neither Israelis nor Palestinians seem to want [a two-state solution] anymore,” Julia Ioffe writes. “They each want a state of their own, a state without the other, and the ethno-nationalism that built Israel—born as it was out of slaughter and oppression—has fueled the ethno-nationalism of the Palestinians, born out of the exact same elements.”
“The plan seemed to have been to wait each other out—or, if they were Israelis, ignore the problem and their complicity in it,” Julia continues. “Now, it is to fight to the death.”
Read Julia’s personal note on the tragedy in Israel at the link in bio.
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![Julia Ioffe Instagram - “Neither Israelis nor Palestinians seem to want [a two-state solution] anymore,” Julia Ioffe writes. “They each want a state of their own, a state without the other, and the ethno-nationalism that built Israel—born as it was out of slaughter and oppression—has fueled the ethno-nationalism of the Palestinians, born out of the exact same elements.”
“The plan seemed to have been to wait each other out—or, if they were Israelis, ignore the problem and their complicity in it,” Julia continues. “Now, it is to fight to the death.”
Read Julia’s personal note on the tragedy in Israel at the link in bio.
#Israel #Palestine](https://www.gethucinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Julia-Ioffe-4-5uewap2415-300x300.jpg)
![Julia Ioffe Instagram - Эмилия Исааковна Брук, 04.08.1934 - 19.12.2020. В субботу ушла моя любимая бабушка Эмма. Она пережила столько за свою насыщенную, непростую жизнь - и войну, и Дело Врачей, и двух мужей, и даже сам Советский Союз - но, к сожалению, она не смогла пережить ковид. Эмма была неординарным человеком, человеком, который жил с такой внутренней свободой, на которую по правилам и Советского Союза и современной России не было разрешения. Она жила так, как она хотела, смело и без страха, умея сохранять и надежду и свои идеалы от того разочарования, которого было немало в её жизни и эпоху. Она была ярым альпинистом и любила песни бардов, которые она с друзьями пела в пути. (Помню, как она мне рассказывала, как её альпинситкая компания стебла их друга, Юрия Визбора, известново ловеласа: "Ты у меня одна," они пели, смеясь, "словно в лесу сосна!") Она любила свою профессию и многие ее больные стали ее ближайшими друзьями. (Отработав 40 лет в Боткинской больнице и еще во МХТ-е, она с огромным сожалением ушла на пенсию только в 77 лет.) Любила свою страну, отказываясь покидать её даже когда её единственная и любимая дочь решила эмигрировать и забрала её внучек далеко за Железный Занавес. "Кто же будет Россию спасать?" сказала она на полном серьёзе, и полезла на баррикады, когда в Москву ввели танки в 91м году. На баррикадах она оказалась опять в 93-м, на бесчитанных митингах и на Болотной 6 мая. Она бесконечно ходила по театрам, выставкам, концертам, ездила по гостям и принимала их. (Помню, как позвонила ей поздравить ее с 81-м днём рождения а к её мобильному телефону подошла её знакомая и сообщила мне, что Эмма не может сейчас со мной говорить, поскольку заказывает всем своим гостям такси домой.) Она читала и смотрела все, следила за новостями, сидела в Фейсбуке и Ютюбе, писала смски и названила мне по Фейстайму, что бы узнать, как там продвигается моя книга и заодно прочитать мне часовую лекцию по советской истории поскольку я совсем ничего, в её мнении, не понимала. Она лечила весь свой дом и до конца принимала больных у себя на кухне. [продолжение в комментах]](https://www.gethucinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Julia-Ioffe-14-fTmLM22086-300x300.jpg)
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Caption : A friend just reminded me of this: Navalny came to my going away party when I was moving back to the US in 2012. He chided me for leaving. Things were just getting interesting, he said. Back then, there was still so much hope and possibility in Russia, so much promise. That Russia, those days seem like a happy dream, unrecognizable from the Russia it became. It is all unbearable.Likes : 7146
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Caption : Last week, I went to the incredible wedding of two incredible people: Mikhail Zygar and Jean-Michel Scherbak. It was a moment of love and truth, joy and honesty that pierced the utter darkness that has enveloped all of us since February 24. May you live long and love longer, and may all your paths be paths of peace.Likes : 4120
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Caption : I went on @realtimers to talk about why the American establishment missed all the signs we were pointing them to.Likes : 2713
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Caption : New headshots just dropped, courtesy of the person whose photography is all over my house and who is the best travel companion and friend of all time, @maxavdeev.Likes : 2538
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Caption : New headshots just dropped, courtesy of the person whose photography is all over my house and who is the best travel companion and friend of all time, @maxavdeev.Likes : 2538
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Caption : New headshots just dropped, courtesy of the person whose photography is all over my house and who is the best travel companion and friend of all time, @maxavdeev.Likes : 2538
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Caption : New headshots just dropped, courtesy of the person whose photography is all over my house and who is the best travel companion and friend of all time, @maxavdeev.Likes : 2538
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Caption : Tried the goth look for @msnbc tonight.Likes : 2517
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Caption : Tried the goth look for @msnbc tonight.Likes : 2517
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Caption : Tried the goth look for @msnbc tonight.Likes : 2517
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Caption : A message from Edward Said’s daughter, Najla Said.Likes : 2080
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Caption : Yo-Yo Ma, along with Emanuel Ax and Leonidas Kavakos, begins his performance at Washington’s Kennedy Center with a performance of Ukraine’s national anthem. A full, standing house.Likes : 1899
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Caption : For everyone coming here to post nasty comments, read this first.Likes : 1815
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Caption : For everyone coming here to post nasty comments, read this first.Likes : 1815
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Caption : Repost from @colbertlateshow: @juliaioffe explains how Russia takes ‘a little bit of truth’ and spins it into a ‘cotton candy of lies.’ #LSSC Watch the full video at the link in bio.Likes : 1629
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Caption : May the light prevail against the darkness like it did once so many generations ago. Happy Hanukkah.Likes : 1580
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Caption : Repost from @realtimers: • Do the Russian people know what’s really going on in Ukraine? • Do they talk to their neighbors about it? • What doesn’t fit in your ass and doesn’t buzz? Russia expert & @puckdotnews founding partner @JuliaIoffe answers ALL THREE of these questions (and more!) on #RealTimeHBO. Stream the latest episode on @HBOMax.Likes : 1447
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Caption : TONIGHT! Julia Ioffe, Puck’s Washington correspondent and resident expert on all things Russia, will be joining Stephen Colbert to discuss the crisis in Ukraine. Tune in to @colbertlateshow on CBS tonight at 11:35pm 🍸 #LSSCLikes : 1372
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Caption : I miss California 😭🍹🌞Likes : 1307
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Caption : I miss California 😭🍹🌞Likes : 1307
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Caption : Puck’s @juliaioffe on @MSNBC’s @wagnertonight discussing #Ukraine aid and the erosion of support in the Republican base. Subscribe to Julia Ioffe’s Washington newsletter “The Best & The Brightest” at the link in bio. Video: Courtesy of MSNBCLikes : 1161
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Caption : Back when I was cool, back in the USSR. 🚗Likes : 1130
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Caption : Back when I was cool, back in the USSR. 🚗Likes : 1130
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Caption : “Yulia, you saved me.” Last summer, when her husband, Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, was poisoned by the Kremlin, the world saw Yulia Navalnaya fight the dragon of the Russian state and win. She became the measure of decency and nobility for millions of Russians, and many asked themselves if they would be capable of such grace and strength under such duress. And of course, everyone wanted a love like hers and Alexey’s. As one of their friends told me, “This is the motivator. In addition to his personal ambition, he needs to constantly prove to this beautiful woman that he is worthy of her.” I hope you will enjoy reading this profile of Yulia Navalnaya as much as I loved writing it. Link in bio, and you can find it in the September issue of Vanity Fair. 📸 by @evgenyfeldman #navalny #yulianavalnaya #russiaLikes : 1084
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Caption : Today is a day I’ve been anticipating for a while: the 30th anniversary of our arrival in the United States as refugees from the Soviet Union. I remember that day—April 28, 1990—as discrete packets of memory of a day too long for a 7 year old to fully understand, one that began in our Moscow apartment (where the first picture was taken shortly before our departure); continued on to Moscow’s Sheremtyevo airport, where my parents’ friends and my grandparents sobbed as if at a funeral; through passport control with what little we were allowed to bring; the long flight during which none of us slept, thanks to my bouncy sister; waiting on the tarmac in the snow in Shannon, Ireland as the plane refueled; our arrival at Dulles International Airport, where we were processed and given our refugee cards and expelled into the Virginia suburbs that seemed to me, in the brightness of its sun and the lushness of its greenery, to be the tropics. A lot has happened in the 30 years since. The country we left soon ceased to exist. The country we came to has flashed us its teeth in recent years in a way that triggers deep, historical fears. We’ve all been back to Moscow countless times and I even made that vastly changed city my home for a few years. My mother recertified as a physician and has become a successful and prominent clinician and professor. My father bought a used car and got a job within two weeks of our arrival and quickly became the bedrock of the family, bringing over his parents and his sister and her family as well as a dozen other relatives. I went to college and horrified my parents by studying Soviet history and then horrified them again by becoming a journalist. My sister, that little blonde spark plug, is now a beautiful woman and a doctor, finishing up her residency and caring for patients with the coronavirus. It was a hard road, but we’re here, American as fuck and proud of it, though I don’t think any of us could have foreseen that, in 30 years, we’d be back to a toilet paper shortage—this time, an American one.Likes : 1079
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Caption : Today is a day I’ve been anticipating for a while: the 30th anniversary of our arrival in the United States as refugees from the Soviet Union. I remember that day—April 28, 1990—as discrete packets of memory of a day too long for a 7 year old to fully understand, one that began in our Moscow apartment (where the first picture was taken shortly before our departure); continued on to Moscow’s Sheremtyevo airport, where my parents’ friends and my grandparents sobbed as if at a funeral; through passport control with what little we were allowed to bring; the long flight during which none of us slept, thanks to my bouncy sister; waiting on the tarmac in the snow in Shannon, Ireland as the plane refueled; our arrival at Dulles International Airport, where we were processed and given our refugee cards and expelled into the Virginia suburbs that seemed to me, in the brightness of its sun and the lushness of its greenery, to be the tropics. A lot has happened in the 30 years since. The country we left soon ceased to exist. The country we came to has flashed us its teeth in recent years in a way that triggers deep, historical fears. We’ve all been back to Moscow countless times and I even made that vastly changed city my home for a few years. My mother recertified as a physician and has become a successful and prominent clinician and professor. My father bought a used car and got a job within two weeks of our arrival and quickly became the bedrock of the family, bringing over his parents and his sister and her family as well as a dozen other relatives. I went to college and horrified my parents by studying Soviet history and then horrified them again by becoming a journalist. My sister, that little blonde spark plug, is now a beautiful woman and a doctor, finishing up her residency and caring for patients with the coronavirus. It was a hard road, but we’re here, American as fuck and proud of it, though I don’t think any of us could have foreseen that, in 30 years, we’d be back to a toilet paper shortage—this time, an American one.Likes : 1079
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Caption : How can you root out Hamas if, every time you fight it, you create more Hamas supporters? Perhaps it’s time to admit that this does not have a military solution. https://puck.news/the-day-after-the-war-ends/Likes : 1021
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Caption : I finally met up with the incredible @dina_litovsky, who took gorgeous photographs for my profile of Elizabeth Warren. We talked about our Soviet childhoods and immigration to America, love, life, and hacking it in this business as women who know what they want. And then she took some pictures of me over ramen. It’s never too late to make new friends, even in the middle of a pandemic.Likes : 1014
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Caption : I finally met up with the incredible @dina_litovsky, who took gorgeous photographs for my profile of Elizabeth Warren. We talked about our Soviet childhoods and immigration to America, love, life, and hacking it in this business as women who know what they want. And then she took some pictures of me over ramen. It’s never too late to make new friends, even in the middle of a pandemic.Likes : 1014
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Caption : I finally met up with the incredible @dina_litovsky, who took gorgeous photographs for my profile of Elizabeth Warren. We talked about our Soviet childhoods and immigration to America, love, life, and hacking it in this business as women who know what they want. And then she took some pictures of me over ramen. It’s never too late to make new friends, even in the middle of a pandemic.Likes : 1014
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Caption : I finally met up with the incredible @dina_litovsky, who took gorgeous photographs for my profile of Elizabeth Warren. We talked about our Soviet childhoods and immigration to America, love, life, and hacking it in this business as women who know what they want. And then she took some pictures of me over ramen. It’s never too late to make new friends, even in the middle of a pandemic.Likes : 1014
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Caption : Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky said he wanted the dancers of the United Ukrainian Ballet, dancers from all over Ukraine who fled when Russia invaded, to feel like artists, not refugees. They achieved it magnificently and with such grace. Here is the cast singing the Ukrainian national anthem. 🇺🇦Likes : 943
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Caption : “Over the weekend, as Alexey Navalny’s death was confirmed by his team—and as the prison authorities announced ‘sudden death syndrome’ as the cause—and as his mother tried to chase down her son’s body in the wilds of the Russian Arctic, the idea that Navalny was gone, forever, sunk in among the Russian opposition, as well as among Russians who are quietly waiting out a regime they loathe,” Julia Ioffe writes. “The hero and hope of a generation, of the generations coming up behind Putin and his bloody, revanchist fantasies, had been killed. The future, a gleeful Putin seemed to be telling Russians, would be just like the present and the past: an endless, stultifying loop of war and terror and repression, with no end or hope in sight.” Enter Yulia Navalny. Read Julia Ioffe’s full dispatch at the link in bio. Photo: Didier Lebrun / Photonews via Getty Images #Navalny #AlexeyNavalny #YuliaNavalny #Russia #PutinLikes : 935
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Caption : “Over the weekend, as Alexey Navalny’s death was confirmed by his team—and as the prison authorities announced ‘sudden death syndrome’ as the cause—and as his mother tried to chase down her son’s body in the wilds of the Russian Arctic, the idea that Navalny was gone, forever, sunk in among the Russian opposition, as well as among Russians who are quietly waiting out a regime they loathe,” Julia Ioffe writes. “The hero and hope of a generation, of the generations coming up behind Putin and his bloody, revanchist fantasies, had been killed. The future, a gleeful Putin seemed to be telling Russians, would be just like the present and the past: an endless, stultifying loop of war and terror and repression, with no end or hope in sight.” Enter Yulia Navalny. Read Julia Ioffe’s full dispatch at the link in bio. Photo: Didier Lebrun / Photonews via Getty Images #Navalny #AlexeyNavalny #YuliaNavalny #Russia #PutinLikes : 935
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Caption : “Over the weekend, as Alexey Navalny’s death was confirmed by his team—and as the prison authorities announced ‘sudden death syndrome’ as the cause—and as his mother tried to chase down her son’s body in the wilds of the Russian Arctic, the idea that Navalny was gone, forever, sunk in among the Russian opposition, as well as among Russians who are quietly waiting out a regime they loathe,” Julia Ioffe writes. “The hero and hope of a generation, of the generations coming up behind Putin and his bloody, revanchist fantasies, had been killed. The future, a gleeful Putin seemed to be telling Russians, would be just like the present and the past: an endless, stultifying loop of war and terror and repression, with no end or hope in sight.” Enter Yulia Navalny. Read Julia Ioffe’s full dispatch at the link in bio. Photo: Didier Lebrun / Photonews via Getty Images #Navalny #AlexeyNavalny #YuliaNavalny #Russia #PutinLikes : 935
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Caption : “Over the weekend, as Alexey Navalny’s death was confirmed by his team—and as the prison authorities announced ‘sudden death syndrome’ as the cause—and as his mother tried to chase down her son’s body in the wilds of the Russian Arctic, the idea that Navalny was gone, forever, sunk in among the Russian opposition, as well as among Russians who are quietly waiting out a regime they loathe,” Julia Ioffe writes. “The hero and hope of a generation, of the generations coming up behind Putin and his bloody, revanchist fantasies, had been killed. The future, a gleeful Putin seemed to be telling Russians, would be just like the present and the past: an endless, stultifying loop of war and terror and repression, with no end or hope in sight.” Enter Yulia Navalny. Read Julia Ioffe’s full dispatch at the link in bio. Photo: Didier Lebrun / Photonews via Getty Images #Navalny #AlexeyNavalny #YuliaNavalny #Russia #PutinLikes : 935
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Caption : “Over the weekend, as Alexey Navalny’s death was confirmed by his team—and as the prison authorities announced ‘sudden death syndrome’ as the cause—and as his mother tried to chase down her son’s body in the wilds of the Russian Arctic, the idea that Navalny was gone, forever, sunk in among the Russian opposition, as well as among Russians who are quietly waiting out a regime they loathe,” Julia Ioffe writes. “The hero and hope of a generation, of the generations coming up behind Putin and his bloody, revanchist fantasies, had been killed. The future, a gleeful Putin seemed to be telling Russians, would be just like the present and the past: an endless, stultifying loop of war and terror and repression, with no end or hope in sight.” Enter Yulia Navalny. Read Julia Ioffe’s full dispatch at the link in bio. Photo: Didier Lebrun / Photonews via Getty Images #Navalny #AlexeyNavalny #YuliaNavalny #Russia #PutinLikes : 935
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Caption : I made a podcast! It’s a narrative limited-series about Vladimir Putin’s childhood, just in time for his birthday. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: https://link.chtbl.com/AboutABoy_Puck Thank you so much to everyone who helped make this podcast: Valerie Thomas, Margo Gray, Chris Basil, everyone at Puck, Andrew Ryvkin, Mikhail Zygar, David Remnick, Fiona Hill, Sasha Molochnikov, Yevgenia Albats, Nina Khrushcheva, Andrew Weiss, Jochen Hellbeck, Krovostok—and my dad, Michael Ioffe. ❤️Likes : 919
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Caption : 🎶vaccine, vaccine, vacciiiiiine🎶Likes : 919
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Caption : The last two years have been some of the hardest of my life. I touched bottom many times. And as I climb back to the surface, gasping for air, spitting water, I’m so keenly aware of the hands pulling me back up, holding me, loving me, helping me find the shore. After the loss, the grief, and the sickness, I know who my people are. And I know who they aren’t. That clarity is hard-won, but it is precious. I have the most incredible family and friends in this world, people of the most generous hearts and the most sparkling minds. I have no illusions about 2022, but I know I walk into it with an army behind me. I could weep with gratitude. I am the luckiest person in this whole world.Likes : 842
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Caption : No fear, only light.Likes : 761
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Caption : This happy that she’s finally feeling better. 📸 @thecuriouseyesLikes : 754
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Caption : It’s the Russian custom to reach out to business partners and clients to wish them a happy new year, so as part of his series of end-of-the-year calls with international dignitaries, Vladimir Putin rang Joe Biden for the second time this month. Piecing together official read-outs of what Russian and American advisors told the press immediately after the conversation, Julia Ioffe paraphrased how the talk went down between Putin and Biden. Read more at the link in bio.Likes : 726
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Caption : It’s the Russian custom to reach out to business partners and clients to wish them a happy new year, so as part of his series of end-of-the-year calls with international dignitaries, Vladimir Putin rang Joe Biden for the second time this month. Piecing together official read-outs of what Russian and American advisors told the press immediately after the conversation, Julia Ioffe paraphrased how the talk went down between Putin and Biden. Read more at the link in bio.Likes : 726
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Caption : Thank you, IG, for reminding me how much I love to dance with my baby sister.Likes : 709
![Julia Ioffe - 705 Likes - Emilia Isaakovna Bruk, 8.14.1934 - 12.19.2020. This weekend, my grandmother Emma died of #COVID19. She survived so much—a world war and the Holocaust, both of which took so many of her family members; Stalin and the Doctor's Plot, which nearly derailed her medical career; the Soviet Union itself, as well as her parents and brother, whom she idolized till the end of her days, scores of friends, and two husbands, both of whom she loved to distraction. But this doesn't begin to capture the irrepressible Emma Bruk. In the censorship and totalitarian control of the Soviet Union, she lived with an inner freedom that is nothing short of remarkable. It went beyond reading and passing around samizdat and helping dissidents and manning the barricades when the tanks rolled into Moscow in August 1991, though she did all that, too. It was about living on her own terms, about not letting anything diminish the purity of her ideals and hopes for a country she loved and refused to give up on, even when her only daughter took her only two grandchildren to another country, far beyond the Iron Curtain. She found her freedom in the people she surrounded herself with, many of whom were her former patients, people who remained her close friends long after she finished treating their hearts. She found it in the vast beauty of the mountains, which she climbed with friends, in the songs of the great bards she sang around campfires in that same beautiful voice I heard over my bed in the dark as a child. She found it in her work as a doctor, both at the Botkin Hospital and Moscow Art Theater, until she finally, reluctantly retired at 77. (She took great pride in the fact that her desk at the latter was next door to the old office of Mikhail Bulgakov, a writer, dramaturg, and fellow physician.) She lived independently till the end, despite her failing heart and the brain tumor that was growing unbeknownst to her. She followed the news and went to protests—her heart, she always said, hurt for Russia. She went to the theater, concerts, and exhibits; she traveled and saw her many friends and never diminishing number of informal patients. [continued in comments]](https://www.gethucinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Julia-Ioffe-15-U6absA7388.jpg)
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Caption : Emilia Isaakovna Bruk, 8.14.1934 – 12.19.2020. This weekend, my grandmother Emma died of #COVID19. She survived so much—a world war and the Holocaust, both of which took so many of her family members; Stalin and the Doctor’s Plot, which nearly derailed her medical career; the Soviet Union itself, as well as her parents and brother, whom she idolized till the end of her days, scores of friends, and two husbands, both of whom she loved to distraction. But this doesn’t begin to capture the irrepressible Emma Bruk. In the censorship and totalitarian control of the Soviet Union, she lived with an inner freedom that is nothing short of remarkable. It went beyond reading and passing around samizdat and helping dissidents and manning the barricades when the tanks rolled into Moscow in August 1991, though she did all that, too. It was about living on her own terms, about not letting anything diminish the purity of her ideals and hopes for a country she loved and refused to give up on, even when her only daughter took her only two grandchildren to another country, far beyond the Iron Curtain. She found her freedom in the people she surrounded herself with, many of whom were her former patients, people who remained her close friends long after she finished treating their hearts. She found it in the vast beauty of the mountains, which she climbed with friends, in the songs of the great bards she sang around campfires in that same beautiful voice I heard over my bed in the dark as a child. She found it in her work as a doctor, both at the Botkin Hospital and Moscow Art Theater, until she finally, reluctantly retired at 77. (She took great pride in the fact that her desk at the latter was next door to the old office of Mikhail Bulgakov, a writer, dramaturg, and fellow physician.) She lived independently till the end, despite her failing heart and the brain tumor that was growing unbeknownst to her. She followed the news and went to protests—her heart, she always said, hurt for Russia. She went to the theater, concerts, and exhibits; she traveled and saw her many friends and never diminishing number of informal patients. [continued in comments]Likes : 705
![Julia Ioffe - 705 Likes - Emilia Isaakovna Bruk, 8.14.1934 - 12.19.2020. This weekend, my grandmother Emma died of #COVID19. She survived so much—a world war and the Holocaust, both of which took so many of her family members; Stalin and the Doctor's Plot, which nearly derailed her medical career; the Soviet Union itself, as well as her parents and brother, whom she idolized till the end of her days, scores of friends, and two husbands, both of whom she loved to distraction. But this doesn't begin to capture the irrepressible Emma Bruk. In the censorship and totalitarian control of the Soviet Union, she lived with an inner freedom that is nothing short of remarkable. It went beyond reading and passing around samizdat and helping dissidents and manning the barricades when the tanks rolled into Moscow in August 1991, though she did all that, too. It was about living on her own terms, about not letting anything diminish the purity of her ideals and hopes for a country she loved and refused to give up on, even when her only daughter took her only two grandchildren to another country, far beyond the Iron Curtain. She found her freedom in the people she surrounded herself with, many of whom were her former patients, people who remained her close friends long after she finished treating their hearts. She found it in the vast beauty of the mountains, which she climbed with friends, in the songs of the great bards she sang around campfires in that same beautiful voice I heard over my bed in the dark as a child. She found it in her work as a doctor, both at the Botkin Hospital and Moscow Art Theater, until she finally, reluctantly retired at 77. (She took great pride in the fact that her desk at the latter was next door to the old office of Mikhail Bulgakov, a writer, dramaturg, and fellow physician.) She lived independently till the end, despite her failing heart and the brain tumor that was growing unbeknownst to her. She followed the news and went to protests—her heart, she always said, hurt for Russia. She went to the theater, concerts, and exhibits; she traveled and saw her many friends and never diminishing number of informal patients. [continued in comments]](https://www.gethucinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Julia-Ioffe-16-QSR7hC9359.jpg)
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Caption : Emilia Isaakovna Bruk, 8.14.1934 – 12.19.2020. This weekend, my grandmother Emma died of #COVID19. She survived so much—a world war and the Holocaust, both of which took so many of her family members; Stalin and the Doctor’s Plot, which nearly derailed her medical career; the Soviet Union itself, as well as her parents and brother, whom she idolized till the end of her days, scores of friends, and two husbands, both of whom she loved to distraction. But this doesn’t begin to capture the irrepressible Emma Bruk. In the censorship and totalitarian control of the Soviet Union, she lived with an inner freedom that is nothing short of remarkable. It went beyond reading and passing around samizdat and helping dissidents and manning the barricades when the tanks rolled into Moscow in August 1991, though she did all that, too. It was about living on her own terms, about not letting anything diminish the purity of her ideals and hopes for a country she loved and refused to give up on, even when her only daughter took her only two grandchildren to another country, far beyond the Iron Curtain. She found her freedom in the people she surrounded herself with, many of whom were her former patients, people who remained her close friends long after she finished treating their hearts. She found it in the vast beauty of the mountains, which she climbed with friends, in the songs of the great bards she sang around campfires in that same beautiful voice I heard over my bed in the dark as a child. She found it in her work as a doctor, both at the Botkin Hospital and Moscow Art Theater, until she finally, reluctantly retired at 77. (She took great pride in the fact that her desk at the latter was next door to the old office of Mikhail Bulgakov, a writer, dramaturg, and fellow physician.) She lived independently till the end, despite her failing heart and the brain tumor that was growing unbeknownst to her. She followed the news and went to protests—her heart, she always said, hurt for Russia. She went to the theater, concerts, and exhibits; she traveled and saw her many friends and never diminishing number of informal patients. [continued in comments]Likes : 705
![Julia Ioffe - 705 Likes - Emilia Isaakovna Bruk, 8.14.1934 - 12.19.2020. This weekend, my grandmother Emma died of #COVID19. She survived so much—a world war and the Holocaust, both of which took so many of her family members; Stalin and the Doctor's Plot, which nearly derailed her medical career; the Soviet Union itself, as well as her parents and brother, whom she idolized till the end of her days, scores of friends, and two husbands, both of whom she loved to distraction. But this doesn't begin to capture the irrepressible Emma Bruk. In the censorship and totalitarian control of the Soviet Union, she lived with an inner freedom that is nothing short of remarkable. It went beyond reading and passing around samizdat and helping dissidents and manning the barricades when the tanks rolled into Moscow in August 1991, though she did all that, too. It was about living on her own terms, about not letting anything diminish the purity of her ideals and hopes for a country she loved and refused to give up on, even when her only daughter took her only two grandchildren to another country, far beyond the Iron Curtain. She found her freedom in the people she surrounded herself with, many of whom were her former patients, people who remained her close friends long after she finished treating their hearts. She found it in the vast beauty of the mountains, which she climbed with friends, in the songs of the great bards she sang around campfires in that same beautiful voice I heard over my bed in the dark as a child. She found it in her work as a doctor, both at the Botkin Hospital and Moscow Art Theater, until she finally, reluctantly retired at 77. (She took great pride in the fact that her desk at the latter was next door to the old office of Mikhail Bulgakov, a writer, dramaturg, and fellow physician.) She lived independently till the end, despite her failing heart and the brain tumor that was growing unbeknownst to her. She followed the news and went to protests—her heart, she always said, hurt for Russia. She went to the theater, concerts, and exhibits; she traveled and saw her many friends and never diminishing number of informal patients. [continued in comments]](https://www.gethucinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Julia-Ioffe-17-vXBEMT9345.jpg)
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Caption : Emilia Isaakovna Bruk, 8.14.1934 – 12.19.2020. This weekend, my grandmother Emma died of #COVID19. She survived so much—a world war and the Holocaust, both of which took so many of her family members; Stalin and the Doctor’s Plot, which nearly derailed her medical career; the Soviet Union itself, as well as her parents and brother, whom she idolized till the end of her days, scores of friends, and two husbands, both of whom she loved to distraction. But this doesn’t begin to capture the irrepressible Emma Bruk. In the censorship and totalitarian control of the Soviet Union, she lived with an inner freedom that is nothing short of remarkable. It went beyond reading and passing around samizdat and helping dissidents and manning the barricades when the tanks rolled into Moscow in August 1991, though she did all that, too. It was about living on her own terms, about not letting anything diminish the purity of her ideals and hopes for a country she loved and refused to give up on, even when her only daughter took her only two grandchildren to another country, far beyond the Iron Curtain. She found her freedom in the people she surrounded herself with, many of whom were her former patients, people who remained her close friends long after she finished treating their hearts. She found it in the vast beauty of the mountains, which she climbed with friends, in the songs of the great bards she sang around campfires in that same beautiful voice I heard over my bed in the dark as a child. She found it in her work as a doctor, both at the Botkin Hospital and Moscow Art Theater, until she finally, reluctantly retired at 77. (She took great pride in the fact that her desk at the latter was next door to the old office of Mikhail Bulgakov, a writer, dramaturg, and fellow physician.) She lived independently till the end, despite her failing heart and the brain tumor that was growing unbeknownst to her. She followed the news and went to protests—her heart, she always said, hurt for Russia. She went to the theater, concerts, and exhibits; she traveled and saw her many friends and never diminishing number of informal patients. [continued in comments]Likes : 705
![Julia Ioffe - 705 Likes - Emilia Isaakovna Bruk, 8.14.1934 - 12.19.2020. This weekend, my grandmother Emma died of #COVID19. She survived so much—a world war and the Holocaust, both of which took so many of her family members; Stalin and the Doctor's Plot, which nearly derailed her medical career; the Soviet Union itself, as well as her parents and brother, whom she idolized till the end of her days, scores of friends, and two husbands, both of whom she loved to distraction. But this doesn't begin to capture the irrepressible Emma Bruk. In the censorship and totalitarian control of the Soviet Union, she lived with an inner freedom that is nothing short of remarkable. It went beyond reading and passing around samizdat and helping dissidents and manning the barricades when the tanks rolled into Moscow in August 1991, though she did all that, too. It was about living on her own terms, about not letting anything diminish the purity of her ideals and hopes for a country she loved and refused to give up on, even when her only daughter took her only two grandchildren to another country, far beyond the Iron Curtain. She found her freedom in the people she surrounded herself with, many of whom were her former patients, people who remained her close friends long after she finished treating their hearts. She found it in the vast beauty of the mountains, which she climbed with friends, in the songs of the great bards she sang around campfires in that same beautiful voice I heard over my bed in the dark as a child. She found it in her work as a doctor, both at the Botkin Hospital and Moscow Art Theater, until she finally, reluctantly retired at 77. (She took great pride in the fact that her desk at the latter was next door to the old office of Mikhail Bulgakov, a writer, dramaturg, and fellow physician.) She lived independently till the end, despite her failing heart and the brain tumor that was growing unbeknownst to her. She followed the news and went to protests—her heart, she always said, hurt for Russia. She went to the theater, concerts, and exhibits; she traveled and saw her many friends and never diminishing number of informal patients. [continued in comments]](https://www.gethucinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Julia-Ioffe-18-9Qgr7i7302.jpg)
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Caption : Emilia Isaakovna Bruk, 8.14.1934 – 12.19.2020. This weekend, my grandmother Emma died of #COVID19. She survived so much—a world war and the Holocaust, both of which took so many of her family members; Stalin and the Doctor’s Plot, which nearly derailed her medical career; the Soviet Union itself, as well as her parents and brother, whom she idolized till the end of her days, scores of friends, and two husbands, both of whom she loved to distraction. But this doesn’t begin to capture the irrepressible Emma Bruk. In the censorship and totalitarian control of the Soviet Union, she lived with an inner freedom that is nothing short of remarkable. It went beyond reading and passing around samizdat and helping dissidents and manning the barricades when the tanks rolled into Moscow in August 1991, though she did all that, too. It was about living on her own terms, about not letting anything diminish the purity of her ideals and hopes for a country she loved and refused to give up on, even when her only daughter took her only two grandchildren to another country, far beyond the Iron Curtain. She found her freedom in the people she surrounded herself with, many of whom were her former patients, people who remained her close friends long after she finished treating their hearts. She found it in the vast beauty of the mountains, which she climbed with friends, in the songs of the great bards she sang around campfires in that same beautiful voice I heard over my bed in the dark as a child. She found it in her work as a doctor, both at the Botkin Hospital and Moscow Art Theater, until she finally, reluctantly retired at 77. (She took great pride in the fact that her desk at the latter was next door to the old office of Mikhail Bulgakov, a writer, dramaturg, and fellow physician.) She lived independently till the end, despite her failing heart and the brain tumor that was growing unbeknownst to her. She followed the news and went to protests—her heart, she always said, hurt for Russia. She went to the theater, concerts, and exhibits; she traveled and saw her many friends and never diminishing number of informal patients. [continued in comments]Likes : 705
![Julia Ioffe - 705 Likes - Emilia Isaakovna Bruk, 8.14.1934 - 12.19.2020. This weekend, my grandmother Emma died of #COVID19. She survived so much—a world war and the Holocaust, both of which took so many of her family members; Stalin and the Doctor's Plot, which nearly derailed her medical career; the Soviet Union itself, as well as her parents and brother, whom she idolized till the end of her days, scores of friends, and two husbands, both of whom she loved to distraction. But this doesn't begin to capture the irrepressible Emma Bruk. In the censorship and totalitarian control of the Soviet Union, she lived with an inner freedom that is nothing short of remarkable. It went beyond reading and passing around samizdat and helping dissidents and manning the barricades when the tanks rolled into Moscow in August 1991, though she did all that, too. It was about living on her own terms, about not letting anything diminish the purity of her ideals and hopes for a country she loved and refused to give up on, even when her only daughter took her only two grandchildren to another country, far beyond the Iron Curtain. She found her freedom in the people she surrounded herself with, many of whom were her former patients, people who remained her close friends long after she finished treating their hearts. She found it in the vast beauty of the mountains, which she climbed with friends, in the songs of the great bards she sang around campfires in that same beautiful voice I heard over my bed in the dark as a child. She found it in her work as a doctor, both at the Botkin Hospital and Moscow Art Theater, until she finally, reluctantly retired at 77. (She took great pride in the fact that her desk at the latter was next door to the old office of Mikhail Bulgakov, a writer, dramaturg, and fellow physician.) She lived independently till the end, despite her failing heart and the brain tumor that was growing unbeknownst to her. She followed the news and went to protests—her heart, she always said, hurt for Russia. She went to the theater, concerts, and exhibits; she traveled and saw her many friends and never diminishing number of informal patients. [continued in comments]](https://www.gethucinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Julia-Ioffe-19-F0fSPE6451.jpg)
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Caption : Emilia Isaakovna Bruk, 8.14.1934 – 12.19.2020. This weekend, my grandmother Emma died of #COVID19. She survived so much—a world war and the Holocaust, both of which took so many of her family members; Stalin and the Doctor’s Plot, which nearly derailed her medical career; the Soviet Union itself, as well as her parents and brother, whom she idolized till the end of her days, scores of friends, and two husbands, both of whom she loved to distraction. But this doesn’t begin to capture the irrepressible Emma Bruk. In the censorship and totalitarian control of the Soviet Union, she lived with an inner freedom that is nothing short of remarkable. It went beyond reading and passing around samizdat and helping dissidents and manning the barricades when the tanks rolled into Moscow in August 1991, though she did all that, too. It was about living on her own terms, about not letting anything diminish the purity of her ideals and hopes for a country she loved and refused to give up on, even when her only daughter took her only two grandchildren to another country, far beyond the Iron Curtain. She found her freedom in the people she surrounded herself with, many of whom were her former patients, people who remained her close friends long after she finished treating their hearts. She found it in the vast beauty of the mountains, which she climbed with friends, in the songs of the great bards she sang around campfires in that same beautiful voice I heard over my bed in the dark as a child. She found it in her work as a doctor, both at the Botkin Hospital and Moscow Art Theater, until she finally, reluctantly retired at 77. (She took great pride in the fact that her desk at the latter was next door to the old office of Mikhail Bulgakov, a writer, dramaturg, and fellow physician.) She lived independently till the end, despite her failing heart and the brain tumor that was growing unbeknownst to her. She followed the news and went to protests—her heart, she always said, hurt for Russia. She went to the theater, concerts, and exhibits; she traveled and saw her many friends and never diminishing number of informal patients. [continued in comments]Likes : 705
![Julia Ioffe - 705 Likes - Emilia Isaakovna Bruk, 8.14.1934 - 12.19.2020. This weekend, my grandmother Emma died of #COVID19. She survived so much—a world war and the Holocaust, both of which took so many of her family members; Stalin and the Doctor's Plot, which nearly derailed her medical career; the Soviet Union itself, as well as her parents and brother, whom she idolized till the end of her days, scores of friends, and two husbands, both of whom she loved to distraction. But this doesn't begin to capture the irrepressible Emma Bruk. In the censorship and totalitarian control of the Soviet Union, she lived with an inner freedom that is nothing short of remarkable. It went beyond reading and passing around samizdat and helping dissidents and manning the barricades when the tanks rolled into Moscow in August 1991, though she did all that, too. It was about living on her own terms, about not letting anything diminish the purity of her ideals and hopes for a country she loved and refused to give up on, even when her only daughter took her only two grandchildren to another country, far beyond the Iron Curtain. She found her freedom in the people she surrounded herself with, many of whom were her former patients, people who remained her close friends long after she finished treating their hearts. She found it in the vast beauty of the mountains, which she climbed with friends, in the songs of the great bards she sang around campfires in that same beautiful voice I heard over my bed in the dark as a child. She found it in her work as a doctor, both at the Botkin Hospital and Moscow Art Theater, until she finally, reluctantly retired at 77. (She took great pride in the fact that her desk at the latter was next door to the old office of Mikhail Bulgakov, a writer, dramaturg, and fellow physician.) She lived independently till the end, despite her failing heart and the brain tumor that was growing unbeknownst to her. She followed the news and went to protests—her heart, she always said, hurt for Russia. She went to the theater, concerts, and exhibits; she traveled and saw her many friends and never diminishing number of informal patients. [continued in comments]](https://www.gethucinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Julia-Ioffe-20-upjlaG7235.jpg)
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Caption : Emilia Isaakovna Bruk, 8.14.1934 – 12.19.2020. This weekend, my grandmother Emma died of #COVID19. She survived so much—a world war and the Holocaust, both of which took so many of her family members; Stalin and the Doctor’s Plot, which nearly derailed her medical career; the Soviet Union itself, as well as her parents and brother, whom she idolized till the end of her days, scores of friends, and two husbands, both of whom she loved to distraction. But this doesn’t begin to capture the irrepressible Emma Bruk. In the censorship and totalitarian control of the Soviet Union, she lived with an inner freedom that is nothing short of remarkable. It went beyond reading and passing around samizdat and helping dissidents and manning the barricades when the tanks rolled into Moscow in August 1991, though she did all that, too. It was about living on her own terms, about not letting anything diminish the purity of her ideals and hopes for a country she loved and refused to give up on, even when her only daughter took her only two grandchildren to another country, far beyond the Iron Curtain. She found her freedom in the people she surrounded herself with, many of whom were her former patients, people who remained her close friends long after she finished treating their hearts. She found it in the vast beauty of the mountains, which she climbed with friends, in the songs of the great bards she sang around campfires in that same beautiful voice I heard over my bed in the dark as a child. She found it in her work as a doctor, both at the Botkin Hospital and Moscow Art Theater, until she finally, reluctantly retired at 77. (She took great pride in the fact that her desk at the latter was next door to the old office of Mikhail Bulgakov, a writer, dramaturg, and fellow physician.) She lived independently till the end, despite her failing heart and the brain tumor that was growing unbeknownst to her. She followed the news and went to protests—her heart, she always said, hurt for Russia. She went to the theater, concerts, and exhibits; she traveled and saw her many friends and never diminishing number of informal patients. [continued in comments]Likes : 705
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Caption : My baby sister Dina, an oncologist in training, just got her first dose of the #COVID19 vaccine today. She wants me to tell you that you should all get it when you have the chance because it is safe and effective. (As for her big sister, “relieved” doesn’t begin to describe it. Fuck yeah, science!)Likes : 698
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Caption : David Scheffer is a pioneer in international human rights law. He helped set up war crimes tribunals for Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, and the Khmer Rouge. He is also negotiated the creation of the International Criminal Court and signed the Rome Statute on behalf of the U.S. government in 1998. Puck’s Julia Ioffe gave Scheffer a call to pick his brain about what’s in South Africa’s complaint against Israel, what we can expect from the International Court of Justice, and what we talk about when we talk about genocide. Read their full conversation at the link in bio. Photo: David Scheffer, then roving U.S. ambassador for war crimes, visits Malisevo, Kosovo in 1998. (Credit to David Brauchli/Sygma via Getty Images) #Israel #Gaza #Hamas #UN #WarLikes : 694
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Caption : David Scheffer is a pioneer in international human rights law. He helped set up war crimes tribunals for Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, and the Khmer Rouge. He is also negotiated the creation of the International Criminal Court and signed the Rome Statute on behalf of the U.S. government in 1998. Puck’s Julia Ioffe gave Scheffer a call to pick his brain about what’s in South Africa’s complaint against Israel, what we can expect from the International Court of Justice, and what we talk about when we talk about genocide. Read their full conversation at the link in bio. Photo: David Scheffer, then roving U.S. ambassador for war crimes, visits Malisevo, Kosovo in 1998. (Credit to David Brauchli/Sygma via Getty Images) #Israel #Gaza #Hamas #UN #WarLikes : 694
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Caption : David Scheffer is a pioneer in international human rights law. He helped set up war crimes tribunals for Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, and the Khmer Rouge. He is also negotiated the creation of the International Criminal Court and signed the Rome Statute on behalf of the U.S. government in 1998. Puck’s Julia Ioffe gave Scheffer a call to pick his brain about what’s in South Africa’s complaint against Israel, what we can expect from the International Court of Justice, and what we talk about when we talk about genocide. Read their full conversation at the link in bio. Photo: David Scheffer, then roving U.S. ambassador for war crimes, visits Malisevo, Kosovo in 1998. (Credit to David Brauchli/Sygma via Getty Images) #Israel #Gaza #Hamas #UN #WarLikes : 694
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Caption : David Scheffer is a pioneer in international human rights law. He helped set up war crimes tribunals for Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, and the Khmer Rouge. He is also negotiated the creation of the International Criminal Court and signed the Rome Statute on behalf of the U.S. government in 1998. Puck’s Julia Ioffe gave Scheffer a call to pick his brain about what’s in South Africa’s complaint against Israel, what we can expect from the International Court of Justice, and what we talk about when we talk about genocide. Read their full conversation at the link in bio. Photo: David Scheffer, then roving U.S. ambassador for war crimes, visits Malisevo, Kosovo in 1998. (Credit to David Brauchli/Sygma via Getty Images) #Israel #Gaza #Hamas #UN #WarLikes : 694
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Caption : David Scheffer is a pioneer in international human rights law. He helped set up war crimes tribunals for Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, and the Khmer Rouge. He is also negotiated the creation of the International Criminal Court and signed the Rome Statute on behalf of the U.S. government in 1998. Puck’s Julia Ioffe gave Scheffer a call to pick his brain about what’s in South Africa’s complaint against Israel, what we can expect from the International Court of Justice, and what we talk about when we talk about genocide. Read their full conversation at the link in bio. Photo: David Scheffer, then roving U.S. ambassador for war crimes, visits Malisevo, Kosovo in 1998. (Credit to David Brauchli/Sygma via Getty Images) #Israel #Gaza #Hamas #UN #WarLikes : 694
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Caption : David Scheffer is a pioneer in international human rights law. He helped set up war crimes tribunals for Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, and the Khmer Rouge. He is also negotiated the creation of the International Criminal Court and signed the Rome Statute on behalf of the U.S. government in 1998. Puck’s Julia Ioffe gave Scheffer a call to pick his brain about what’s in South Africa’s complaint against Israel, what we can expect from the International Court of Justice, and what we talk about when we talk about genocide. Read their full conversation at the link in bio. Photo: David Scheffer, then roving U.S. ambassador for war crimes, visits Malisevo, Kosovo in 1998. (Credit to David Brauchli/Sygma via Getty Images) #Israel #Gaza #Hamas #UN #WarLikes : 694
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Caption : Aperol spritz season is open.Likes : 687
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Caption : Happy one-year anniversary to @puckdotnews and all my incredible colleagues! What a year it’s been—easily the happiest and most fulfilling in my career. Onward and upwards! 📸 by @emgoughLikes : 676
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Caption : “There’s something about the moment that’s keeping people together,” a senior administration source tells Puck’s Julia Ioffe. “There’s a sense that we’re standing at the precipice right now.” Julia Ioffe has details at the link in bio. Photos: Drew Angerer/Getty Images, Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images #NationalSecurityLikes : 648
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Caption : “There’s something about the moment that’s keeping people together,” a senior administration source tells Puck’s Julia Ioffe. “There’s a sense that we’re standing at the precipice right now.” Julia Ioffe has details at the link in bio. Photos: Drew Angerer/Getty Images, Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images #NationalSecurityLikes : 648
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Caption : “There’s something about the moment that’s keeping people together,” a senior administration source tells Puck’s Julia Ioffe. “There’s a sense that we’re standing at the precipice right now.” Julia Ioffe has details at the link in bio. Photos: Drew Angerer/Getty Images, Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images #NationalSecurityLikes : 648
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Caption : “There’s something about the moment that’s keeping people together,” a senior administration source tells Puck’s Julia Ioffe. “There’s a sense that we’re standing at the precipice right now.” Julia Ioffe has details at the link in bio. Photos: Drew Angerer/Getty Images, Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images #NationalSecurityLikes : 648
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Caption : “There’s something about the moment that’s keeping people together,” a senior administration source tells Puck’s Julia Ioffe. “There’s a sense that we’re standing at the precipice right now.” Julia Ioffe has details at the link in bio. Photos: Drew Angerer/Getty Images, Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images #NationalSecurityLikes : 648
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Caption : “There’s something about the moment that’s keeping people together,” a senior administration source tells Puck’s Julia Ioffe. “There’s a sense that we’re standing at the precipice right now.” Julia Ioffe has details at the link in bio. Photos: Drew Angerer/Getty Images, Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images #NationalSecurityLikes : 648
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Caption : “Under gray skies and a wet May snow, Vladimir Putin was inaugurated to his fifth term as Russian president on Tuesday, though I will be honest and say, I had to look that number up. It is a meaningless one, anyway. What is a presidential term to a man who intends to be king until he dies?” Read Julia Ioffe’s full essay at the link in bio. Photos: Sergei Bobylyov/Pool/AFP; Ilya Pitalev/SPUTNIK/AFP.Likes : 642
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Caption : “Under gray skies and a wet May snow, Vladimir Putin was inaugurated to his fifth term as Russian president on Tuesday, though I will be honest and say, I had to look that number up. It is a meaningless one, anyway. What is a presidential term to a man who intends to be king until he dies?” Read Julia Ioffe’s full essay at the link in bio. Photos: Sergei Bobylyov/Pool/AFP; Ilya Pitalev/SPUTNIK/AFP.Likes : 642
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Caption : “Under gray skies and a wet May snow, Vladimir Putin was inaugurated to his fifth term as Russian president on Tuesday, though I will be honest and say, I had to look that number up. It is a meaningless one, anyway. What is a presidential term to a man who intends to be king until he dies?” Read Julia Ioffe’s full essay at the link in bio. Photos: Sergei Bobylyov/Pool/AFP; Ilya Pitalev/SPUTNIK/AFP.Likes : 642
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Caption : “Under gray skies and a wet May snow, Vladimir Putin was inaugurated to his fifth term as Russian president on Tuesday, though I will be honest and say, I had to look that number up. It is a meaningless one, anyway. What is a presidential term to a man who intends to be king until he dies?” Read Julia Ioffe’s full essay at the link in bio. Photos: Sergei Bobylyov/Pool/AFP; Ilya Pitalev/SPUTNIK/AFP.Likes : 642
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Caption : Happy 31st America-versary to these weirdos. What a ride it’s been. 🇺🇸Likes : 617
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Caption : When the person unfortunate enough to sit across from you and your close friend of 20 years that you so rarely get to see, asks, “Do you…share a brain?” 🥰🧠🥂Likes : 587
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Caption : Celebrating the funniest, most brilliant and stylish, most loving and wonderful girl in the world. 🎂🥂🥰Likes : 572
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Caption : Celebrating the funniest, most brilliant and stylish, most loving and wonderful girl in the world. 🎂🥂🥰Likes : 572
![Julia Ioffe - 562 Likes - “Neither Israelis nor Palestinians seem to want [a two-state solution] anymore,” Julia Ioffe writes. “They each want a state of their own, a state without the other, and the ethno-nationalism that built Israel—born as it was out of slaughter and oppression—has fueled the ethno-nationalism of the Palestinians, born out of the exact same elements.”
“The plan seemed to have been to wait each other out—or, if they were Israelis, ignore the problem and their complicity in it,” Julia continues. “Now, it is to fight to the death.”
Read Julia’s personal note on the tragedy in Israel at the link in bio.
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Caption : “Neither Israelis nor Palestinians seem to want [a two-state solution] anymore,” Julia Ioffe writes. “They each want a state of their own, a state without the other, and the ethno-nationalism that built Israel—born as it was out of slaughter and oppression—has fueled the ethno-nationalism of the Palestinians, born out of the exact same elements.” “The plan seemed to have been to wait each other out—or, if they were Israelis, ignore the problem and their complicity in it,” Julia continues. “Now, it is to fight to the death.” Read Julia’s personal note on the tragedy in Israel at the link in bio. #Israel #PalestineLikes : 562
![Julia Ioffe - 562 Likes - “Neither Israelis nor Palestinians seem to want [a two-state solution] anymore,” Julia Ioffe writes. “They each want a state of their own, a state without the other, and the ethno-nationalism that built Israel—born as it was out of slaughter and oppression—has fueled the ethno-nationalism of the Palestinians, born out of the exact same elements.”
“The plan seemed to have been to wait each other out—or, if they were Israelis, ignore the problem and their complicity in it,” Julia continues. “Now, it is to fight to the death.”
Read Julia’s personal note on the tragedy in Israel at the link in bio.
#Israel #Palestine](https://www.gethucinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Julia-Ioffe-4-5uewap2415.jpg)
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Caption : “Neither Israelis nor Palestinians seem to want [a two-state solution] anymore,” Julia Ioffe writes. “They each want a state of their own, a state without the other, and the ethno-nationalism that built Israel—born as it was out of slaughter and oppression—has fueled the ethno-nationalism of the Palestinians, born out of the exact same elements.” “The plan seemed to have been to wait each other out—or, if they were Israelis, ignore the problem and their complicity in it,” Julia continues. “Now, it is to fight to the death.” Read Julia’s personal note on the tragedy in Israel at the link in bio. #Israel #PalestineLikes : 562
![Julia Ioffe - 556 Likes - Эмилия Исааковна Брук, 04.08.1934 - 19.12.2020. В субботу ушла моя любимая бабушка Эмма. Она пережила столько за свою насыщенную, непростую жизнь - и войну, и Дело Врачей, и двух мужей, и даже сам Советский Союз - но, к сожалению, она не смогла пережить ковид. Эмма была неординарным человеком, человеком, который жил с такой внутренней свободой, на которую по правилам и Советского Союза и современной России не было разрешения. Она жила так, как она хотела, смело и без страха, умея сохранять и надежду и свои идеалы от того разочарования, которого было немало в её жизни и эпоху. Она была ярым альпинистом и любила песни бардов, которые она с друзьями пела в пути. (Помню, как она мне рассказывала, как её альпинситкая компания стебла их друга, Юрия Визбора, известново ловеласа: "Ты у меня одна," они пели, смеясь, "словно в лесу сосна!") Она любила свою профессию и многие ее больные стали ее ближайшими друзьями. (Отработав 40 лет в Боткинской больнице и еще во МХТ-е, она с огромным сожалением ушла на пенсию только в 77 лет.) Любила свою страну, отказываясь покидать её даже когда её единственная и любимая дочь решила эмигрировать и забрала её внучек далеко за Железный Занавес. "Кто же будет Россию спасать?" сказала она на полном серьёзе, и полезла на баррикады, когда в Москву ввели танки в 91м году. На баррикадах она оказалась опять в 93-м, на бесчитанных митингах и на Болотной 6 мая. Она бесконечно ходила по театрам, выставкам, концертам, ездила по гостям и принимала их. (Помню, как позвонила ей поздравить ее с 81-м днём рождения а к её мобильному телефону подошла её знакомая и сообщила мне, что Эмма не может сейчас со мной говорить, поскольку заказывает всем своим гостям такси домой.) Она читала и смотрела все, следила за новостями, сидела в Фейсбуке и Ютюбе, писала смски и названила мне по Фейстайму, что бы узнать, как там продвигается моя книга и заодно прочитать мне часовую лекцию по советской истории поскольку я совсем ничего, в её мнении, не понимала. Она лечила весь свой дом и до конца принимала больных у себя на кухне. [продолжение в комментах]](https://www.gethucinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Julia-Ioffe-14-fTmLM22086.jpg)
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Caption : Эмилия Исааковна Брук, 04.08.1934 – 19.12.2020. В субботу ушла моя любимая бабушка Эмма. Она пережила столько за свою насыщенную, непростую жизнь – и войну, и Дело Врачей, и двух мужей, и даже сам Советский Союз – но, к сожалению, она не смогла пережить ковид. Эмма была неординарным человеком, человеком, который жил с такой внутренней свободой, на которую по правилам и Советского Союза и современной России не было разрешения. Она жила так, как она хотела, смело и без страха, умея сохранять и надежду и свои идеалы от того разочарования, которого было немало в её жизни и эпоху. Она была ярым альпинистом и любила песни бардов, которые она с друзьями пела в пути. (Помню, как она мне рассказывала, как её альпинситкая компания стебла их друга, Юрия Визбора, известново ловеласа: “Ты у меня одна,” они пели, смеясь, “словно в лесу сосна!”) Она любила свою профессию и многие ее больные стали ее ближайшими друзьями. (Отработав 40 лет в Боткинской больнице и еще во МХТ-е, она с огромным сожалением ушла на пенсию только в 77 лет.) Любила свою страну, отказываясь покидать её даже когда её единственная и любимая дочь решила эмигрировать и забрала её внучек далеко за Железный Занавес. “Кто же будет Россию спасать?” сказала она на полном серьёзе, и полезла на баррикады, когда в Москву ввели танки в 91м году. На баррикадах она оказалась опять в 93-м, на бесчитанных митингах и на Болотной 6 мая. Она бесконечно ходила по театрам, выставкам, концертам, ездила по гостям и принимала их. (Помню, как позвонила ей поздравить ее с 81-м днём рождения а к её мобильному телефону подошла её знакомая и сообщила мне, что Эмма не может сейчас со мной говорить, поскольку заказывает всем своим гостям такси домой.) Она читала и смотрела все, следила за новостями, сидела в Фейсбуке и Ютюбе, писала смски и названила мне по Фейстайму, что бы узнать, как там продвигается моя книга и заодно прочитать мне часовую лекцию по советской истории поскольку я совсем ничего, в её мнении, не понимала. Она лечила весь свой дом и до конца принимала больных у себя на кухне. [продолжение в комментах]Likes : 556
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Caption : When a good friend comes to town, you reward them with a steak dinner. This way, they are sure to return. 🥩🍷 #latergramLikes : 552
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Caption : When a good friend comes to town, you reward them with a steak dinner. This way, they are sure to return. 🥩🍷 #latergramLikes : 552
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Caption : I’ve known this brilliant young woman since she was just a fresh college graduate, trying to make her way in the world. Now, she’s written “Come to This Court and Cry,” one of the most captivating and haunting books I’ve read in years—part gripping historical thriller, part family mystery—to the point where I’ve been walking around with circles under my eyes all week: I keep thinking, I’ll just read a chapter or two before bed, but I can’t stop and then it’s 3 am. A truly stunning and masterfully woven tale. Run, don’t walk, folks…Likes : 548
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Caption : It’s my grandmother Emma’s 87th birthday. Normally, I would call her and find her too busy entertaining friends in her apartment, or, if I were in Moscow, I’d take her out to dinner, where she’d invariably order the fish, true to her family’s Odessa roots. But she died back in December of COVID-19. I still catch myself wondering why she hasn’t called in so long or reaching to call her, surprised anew by the void of death. Happy birthday, babulya. I miss you every day.Likes : 531
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Caption : Who was Yevgeny Prigozhin? Read Julia Ioffe’s definitive profile on “Putin’s Chef,” her analysis of his June coup-that-wasn’t, and her reporting on the aftermath of his assassination, at the link in bio. Video courtesy of CNN #Russia #Prigozhin #YevgenyPrigozhin #Putin #VladimirPutin #WagnerLikes : 529
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Caption : Puck founding partner and Washington correspondent Julia Ioffe sat down with @StandardIndustries Co-C.E.O., @DavidSWinter for this week’s Standard Speaker Series to provide her expert take on the conflict in Ukraine, and more insight into where Western media often falls short in covering Russia. #StandardSpeakerSeries #UkraineConflictLikes : 503
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Caption : שֶׁהֶחֱיָנוּ וְקִיְּמָנוּ וְהִגִּיעָנוּ לַזְּמַן הַזֶּה The words hit differently this year. We survived. Happy Hanukkah.Likes : 502
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Caption : Back when I was the 💃🏻 emojiLikes : 466
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Caption : Washington, DC. November 7, 2020. (NB: this is not my champagne. I glimpsed it as I was walking by.)Likes : 456
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Caption : Last year, we said, “next year in person.” And it happened. And I got to hug and see my other grandmother for the first time in over a year. Chag sameach to everyone celebrating. May next year be even better.Likes : 446
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Caption : In late 2016, American diplomats in Havana reported a strange constellation of symptoms: a weird sound, pain and pressure in their heads, a ringing in their ears, dizziness, nausea, brain fog. Four years later, the Havana Syndrome has spread—to Americans in China, Poland, Georgia, Australia, Taiwan, and the U.K. Americans are even getting hit on American soil—in Philadelphia, in the DC suburbs—and a CIA investigation points to the Russian security services wielding a novel directed energy weapon. What’s worse, CIA leadership is apparently too scared to tell the White House because of President Trump’s strange affinity for Vladimir Putin. I’ve spent the last four months reporting this story, and it has shaken me to my core. Please have a read. Link in bio.Likes : 425
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Caption : …when our own strength failed us. Last night of Hanukkah. May next year’s be happier.Likes : 423
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Caption : Puck’s Julia Ioffe joined CNN’s Rosemary Church on air to analyze Yevgeny Prigozhin’s coup attempt and Vladimir Putin’s response. At the link in bio, you can read Julia’s post-coup report. Here’s a taste: “Prigozhin was the strongest, most obvious rival Putin had. He had his own private army, tens of thousands of men who had criminal pasts and were loyal to him personally, and who, having been through the gauntlet of the war in Ukraine, were skilled at violence and clearly unafraid. Sure, Prigozhin’s march revealed damning details about the defense of the Russian homeland: as Prigozhin advanced, the Russian military mostly melted away. But Prigozhin, for whatever reason, blinked first. And that means Putin won.” Video: Courtesy of CNN #Russia #Putin #Prigozhin #Coup #Ukraine #PoliticsLikes : 417
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Caption : These two teenagers are my parents. They’re the best.Likes : 415
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Caption : These two teenagers are my parents. They’re the best.Likes : 415
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Caption : These two teenagers are my parents. They’re the best.Likes : 415
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Caption : These two teenagers are my parents. They’re the best.Likes : 415
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Caption : These two teenagers are my parents. They’re the best.Likes : 415
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Caption : I am very proud of this paella. 🥘Likes : 394
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Caption : On Friday, Alexey Navalny was buried, and despite the risk, tens of thousands of people came out to bid him farewell. “It was hard not to see last weekend as a kind of inversion of Bolotnaya, and of that entire winter when Alexey first emerged as the most credible leader of the anti-Putin movement,” Julia Ioffe writes. “But back then, the air was filled with a sense that better days were ahead, if not just around the corner. Russia seemed on the brink of finally, finally fulfilling its potential.” “What we saw this weekend was the end of that hopeful arc. First, the protest movement had been killed, and now so too had its leader. And though over 10,000 people in Moscow came out to bid Alexey farewell, what did it change, really? Putin would still be re-elected overwhelmingly for another six-year term, Russian missiles would keep killing Ukrainian children for no discernible reason, and dissent would land hundreds and thousands more Russians behind bars. If we thought the repression of Russian society was bad 15 years ago, it has become Stalinesque now.” Read Julia Ioffe’s full essay at the link in bio. Photo: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images #Navalny #AlexeyNavalny #Russia #Moscow #PutinLikes : 387
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Caption : I had #covid19. I was sick for 5 weeks, I ended up in the emergency room because I couldn’t breathe, where I found out that my lungs had partially deflated. Oh, and I tested negative for the virus. Repeatedly. I started reporting it out and discovered that that is very possible and the tests aren’t doing what you think they are. Link in bio.Likes : 367
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Caption : The third episode of Julia Ioffe’s narrative podcast “About a Boy: The Story of Vladimir Putin” drops today. Head to the link in bio to listen. #Podcast #VladimirPutin #Putin #RussiaLikes : 366
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Caption : In the Soviet Union, my mother was an otolaryngologist (an ear-nose-throat doctor). She did easy procedures, like taking out children’s tonsils (which was, like many Soviet medical procedures, done without anesthesia). She also could do the intricate surgery that could fix the bones of the middle ear and restore someone’s hearing, a surgery that would’ve helped Beethoven. In 1990, she left the Soviet Union for the United States and had no idea what kind of work she was going to do there. Just in case, she read some books and took some classes on how to do nails and also brought her medical instruments with her. Today, 30 years later, my mother is a pathologist and a professor of medicine and has no need of the old instruments that my father just dug up in the basement but we’re all feeling nostalgic.Likes : 356